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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
Ambrose Bierce
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These strange words he repeated in the same solemn tones three times; then, as the expectant multitude waited breathless for his discourse, stepped quietly down into the midst of them, every one afterward declaring that he passed within a pace of where himself had stood. For a moment the crowd was speechless with surprise and disappointment, then broke into wild, fierce cries: “Lynch him, lynch him!” and some have testified that they heard the word “crucify.” Struggling into looser order, the infuriated mob started in mad pursuit; but each man ran a different way and the stranger was seen again by none of them.
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(After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others.)[pg 8. . . Read More
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I absolutely love Ambrose Bierce well beyond his real worth and talent. I forgive him all of his transgressions, from his crusty antiquated prose style to more than a few quaintly outdated story ideas. However, there are just a few things that he’s written that are beyond reproach in my book. It’s t
Do you ever start reading a book, then suddenly started hearing quotes from it all over the place, then realised that you must have been glossing over the author and the book your whole life? Well, it turns out that Ambrose Bierce is one of those authors, even though he was writing in the late 19th
I won't lie to you - this is a long book.
Ambrose Bierce shares my birthday, misanthropy and was also the youngest child...so I immediately felt a kinship with the man. I loved the Devil's Dictionary. It was shocking that most of it is still applicable today.
He is much, much more than An Occurance at
There’s a lot more to Ambrose Bierce (1842-c1914) than ”Chickamauga” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and The Devil’s Dictionary.
To my surprise, much of his writing could be characterized, reluctantly, as snippets of prose. Much of his writing suggests that he habitually wrote with tongue in
A compellingly evil fucker if ever there was one. So much to recommend it.
Bierce's one-paragraph fables are quite amazing.
This was on my grandma's book shelf so I read it when I was about 10 and the stories traumatized me for life. Need to read again.